The Osceola times., 1887-02-26

~ should say so." returned the dem
tist, heartily. Sometimes / simply
have to excuse myself for moment to
60 in the laboratory and swear. II i
didn't | should pinch the nose of my
patient, and that would be bad for the
trade.
| "fes, and the nose"
''lts the feminine noses that / par
ucularly would like to pinch. The
| dear creatures shrek afresh at every
instrument that l take out. They howl
as loudly when put little innocent
water into their mouth as when inject
the medicine. | often try them to see
whether the pain is actual or affected.
They frequently begin screaming be-
fore have touched their teeth. Can't
help itp Fudge! They could be taught
to help it."
"Some one might start q school to
teach women to be sensible"
"Well, no, l think on the whole it's
as well for us that they don't know
more than they do"
What do you do with them when
they screamp"
"Pet them, Of course. What else
can do9 Tell them l know I'm
brute, when as matter OF fact
haven't hurt them at all. Others are
very ugly. The men often are-l
mean they are cross and fault-fnding.
To listen to them one would suppose
that / was to blame for the liberation
of their molars. and the breaking Of
their by-cuspids."
al suppose you witness some odd
freaks when you give ether or chloro.
FORM"
"Well, the other day a man l had
given ether got out of the chair and
wanted TO give me thrashing. That
struck me AS being sufficiently odd."
"Did it SOP"
al want to tell you one thing, my
friend, and that is that pulling teeth
doesn't hurt SO much as most people
think it does"
You're good authority"
"You can laugh il you like, but the
truth is that hot more than four teeth
out OF ten cause pain when they are
drawn. But the nerves are prepared
to be hurt, and every man or woma
that leaves the dentists chair will
swear that he or she was nearly muir.
dered. You remember this man that
went about the streets year or two
ago pulling teeth without painp To
begin with he didn't charge a cent.
That made great difference.
Not popular method, though, ]
think, among dentists"
mo. 1t is not likely to come into
general use. Secondly, the man we
were talking about had band of music
with him. Thirdly, he pulled very
rapidly. Fourthly, his patients did
not come prepared to be hurt. Filthy"
81 have always from childhood's
earliest hour made point of going to
sleep at filthy
"As you like" the dentist said, pick.
ing up some brutal-looking instruments
with points as sharp as the northeast
wind. But there's another method
beside distracting the attention for
drawing teeth painlessly. 1t is called
the rapid-breathing process. The lungs
are to be overcharged with air by
breathing so rapidly that one draws in
mnch more than can be exhausted.
This makes the head giddy and pro-
duces II peculiar effect upon the con-
sciousncss, and tooth can be drawn
without pan if it is done promptly"
81 should think this practice would
come into more general use"
at would if people only had the pres
ence of mind to do just as they were
told, and if they were not so frightened.
Men and women are awful towards
when it comes to pain
But" said the victim with some
"you must remember that
even the Indians, who are natural stoics,
permitted their braves to cry for tooth.
ache without any derogation to their
manhood"
1--WE have struck a toothsome sub
ject, smilingly remarked the dentist,
but when he looked up the chair was
empty and his victim had gone.-C Gu
cdgo Tribune.